English Explanatory Dictionary

recognition

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
  2. Acceptance as valid or true.
  3. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
  4. Honour, favourable note, or attention.
  5. The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
  6. A return of the feu to the superior.

Pronunciation

/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ en-us-recognition.ogg

Word forms

recognition recognitions

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscere.

Related words

recognitive recognitory identification type approval

Derived words

allorecognition audio-visual speech recognition autorecognition biorecognition catch wreck character recognition corecognition derecognition enantiorecognition fingerprint recognition gender recognition gender recognition certificate immunorecognition intelligent character recognition inter-recognition interrecognition irrecognition misrecognition nonrecognition OCR optical character recognition pattern recognition phosphorecognition recognitional recognition of prior learning recognition time rerecognition revenue recognition rule of recognition self-recognition speech recognition underrecognition unrecognition voice recognition
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